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Pharmacy Resident Position
This is a 12-month post-graduate pharmacy practice and learning position that provides distributive and clinical pharmacy training and education to the resident. This position will be accredited by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) and will begin July 1st of each residency year. The pharmacist resident will perform daily patient care activities in the medication management process as a registered pharmacist defined by the Arizona Board of Pharmacy Statutes. This position reports directly to the residency program coordinator and receives direct supervision from the manager, clinical pharmacy services. The resident also receives oversight and supervision from the Sr. manager and chief of pharmacy services. Position duties include accurately processing and dispensing inpatient and outpatient prescriptions and providing oral and written counseling information to the patient and/or caregiver when necessary. The pharmacist resident will also provide oral and written information to patients and families, monitor patients for optimal therapeutic outcomes, verify appropriateness of medication selection for patient`s diagnosis, age specific criteria, screen for and verify allergies, dose limits and interactions for drugs prior to dispense, actively participate in the education of pharmacy students and pharmacy interns, oversee technical and support staff to promote safe and efficient daily work flow, act as liaison between the pharmacy and the medical and nursing staff for issues pertaining to pharmacy services, serve in a professional capacity on unit-based clinical teams providing comprehensive patient care support for medical and nursing staff, suggest evidenced based and effective therapeutic drug regimens for care, effectively communicate problems, unique patient needs and other necessary information for enhanced continuity of care, respond to all modes of communication within the department and hospital, proactively and effectively solve problems for medication management, answer phones promptly and politely demonstrating PCH values of excellence in clinical care, provide direct oversight and timely and accurate verification of final product for all aseptic parenteral and non-parenteral medication preparation, dispensing and distribution in compliance with state, federal statues and hospital procedures, successfully complete the annual competency and skills validations with a qualified observer by skills lab and/or examination as required, participate professional development programs and ensure ongoing awareness and understanding of most current methodologies, practices and philosophies as applied to the relevant patient population and research area, actively pursue self-education and ensure satisfactory completion of all state board continuing education credit currency, process prescriber orders in the identified pharmacy information systems in an effective, efficient, timely, safe and accurate manner, and manage the computerized patient profile, maintain appropriate competency and skills with automated dispensing and other related medication system technology used within the department and hospital to provide safe care, initiate, process and complete all associated medication error incident, adverse drug reaction, and compliance documentation reports and records to meet standards and statues, prepare various other reports as necessary in defined rotation syllabi, review and interpret physician orders for completeness and appropriateness with respect to the patient's clinical status, age and/or other significant factors effective the safety and efficacy of the drug therapy prescribed, verify and ensure appropriateness of medication selection, recommend initiation, intervention and substitution of drug therapy when necessary, document clinical interventions in the identified data base to meet department metrics, ensure doses are filled and delivered within established departmental guidelines in a timely and safe manner, evaluate need for all non-formulary medication required, suggest equally efficacious and cost effective therapy when appropriate, and perform miscellaneous job related duties as requested.
This is a 12-month post-graduate pharmacy practice and learning position that provides distributive and clinical pharmacy training and education to the resident. This position will be accredited by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) and will begin July 1st of each residency year. The pharmacist resident will perform daily patient care activities in the medication management process as a registered pharmacist defined by the Arizona Board of Pharmacy Statutes. This position reports directly to the residency program coordinator and receives direct supervision from the manager, clinical pharmacy services. The resident also receives oversight and supervision from the Sr. manager and chief of pharmacy services. Position duties include accurately processing and dispensing inpatient and outpatient prescriptions and providing oral and written counseling information to the patient and/or caregiver when necessary. The pharmacist resident will also provide oral and written information to patients and families, monitor patients for optimal therapeutic outcomes, verify appropriateness of medication selection for patient`s diagnosis, age specific criteria, screen for and verify allergies, dose limits and interactions for drugs prior to dispense, actively participate in the education of pharmacy students and pharmacy interns, oversee technical and support staff to promote safe and efficient daily work flow, act as liaison between the pharmacy and the medical and nursing staff for issues pertaining to pharmacy services, serve in a professional capacity on unit-based clinical teams providing comprehensive patient care support for medical and nursing staff, suggest evidenced based and effective therapeutic drug regimens for care, effectively communicate problems, unique patient needs and other necessary information for enhanced continuity of care, respond to all modes of communication within the department and hospital, proactively and effectively solve problems for medication management, answer phones promptly and politely demonstrating PCH values of excellence in clinical care, provide direct oversight and timely and accurate verification of final product for all aseptic parenteral and non-parenteral medication preparation, dispensing and distribution in compliance with state, federal statues and hospital procedures, successfully complete the annual competency and skills validations with a qualified observer by skills lab and/or examination as required, participate professional development programs and ensure ongoing awareness and understanding of most current methodologies, practices and philosophies as applied to the relevant patient population and research area, actively pursue self-education and ensure satisfactory completion of all state board continuing education credit currency, process prescriber orders in the identified pharmacy information systems in an effective, efficient, timely, safe and accurate manner, and manage the computerized patient profile, maintain appropriate competency and skills with automated dispensing and other related medication system technology used within the department and hospital to provide safe care, initiate, process and complete all associated medication error incident, adverse drug reaction, and compliance documentation reports and records to meet standards and statues, prepare various other reports as necessary in defined rotation syllabi, review and interpret physician orders for completeness and appropriateness with respect to the patient's clinical status, age and/or other significant factors effective the safety and efficacy of the drug therapy prescribed, verify and ensure appropriateness of medication selection, recommend initiation, intervention and substitution of drug therapy when necessary, document clinical interventions in the identified data base to meet department metrics, ensure doses are filled and delivered within established departmental guidelines in a timely and safe manner, evaluate need for all non-formulary medication required, suggest equally efficacious and cost effective therapy when appropriate, and perform miscellaneous job related duties as requested.